Thanks for reminding me, after the weekend I forgot to come back to this thread.
So here are the 10 largest countries in population, 2017 numbers:
Rank | Country | Population
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1 | China | 1,409,517,397
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2 | India | 1,339,180,127
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3 | United States | 324,459,463
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4 | Indonesia | 263,991,379
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5 | Brazil | 209,288,278
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6 | Pakistan | 197,015,955
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7 | Nigeria | 190,886,311
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8 | Bangladesh | 164,669,751
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9 | Russia | 143,989,754
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10 | Mexico | 129,163,276 |
So, to bore people with the details of what I didn't know:
- I had no idea Indonesia is ranked 4. I wouldn't have placed it in the top 50.
- I didn't know all the European countries (except Russia, but it's also in Asia) were so small in population.
- I didn't know Pakistan was so populous. I would have guessed around 30.
- I also didn't know Nigeria was so populous. Again, I would have guessed around 30.
- I definitely never would have placed Bangladesh in the top 10. I would have guessed around 50.
- I would have guessed Russia was much larger, but then I'm probably stuck back in the cold war era, hearing "Russia" but thinking "USSR".
- I wouldn't have put Mexico in the top 10. Maybe I would have guessed around 30.
If I hadn't already seen the list and tried to list the top 10 countries I would have gotten the first three correct, but probably would have been wrong about the rest of the top 10 except for Russia.
--Percy